Classicly Collection of Books

Struwwelpeter - Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

Heinrich Hoffmann

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wan..

Artillery Through the Ages

Albert C. Manucy

Artillery Through the Ages is a short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America written by Albert C. Manucy, an author, historian and a Fulbright Scholar who specialized in Span..

Birds Every Child Should Know

Neltje Blanchan

Birds Every Child Should Know is a zoology book for children written by Neltje Blanchan, a United States scientific historian and nature writer who published several books on wildflowers and birds.Exc..

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States

Clement Juglar

Preface from the book: The second edition of this study of Panics in the United States brought us through the year 1891. I originated about one fourth of it. This third edition brings us practically u..

Mother West Wind's Children

Thornton W. Burgess

"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Green Meadows and Green Forest have little adventures while Grandfather Fro..

The Choice

Edith Wharton

The Choice is a short story deals with interpersonal relationships written by Edith Wharton,  an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her inside..

The Giant's Robe

F. Anstey

The Giant's Robe is a humorous fiction work by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, an English author, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities.Auth..

A Portrait of Old George Town

Grace Dunlop Peter

A Portrait of Old George Town is a travel literature about Old George Town written by Grace Dunlop Peter.Authors preface from the book:IT IS not at all in my mind to write a history of Georgetown. Sev..